Watch the latest episode of TLC's Nate & Jeremiah By Design "Modern Beach Barn" on Saturday, April 20th at 9PM/8c. Watch how Nate Berkus & Jeremiah Brent help Lauren and George turn their dysfunctional space into a welcoming home.

Just months after buying their first home, George finds out that Lauren is pregnant. With a newborn on the way, Nate and Jeremiah with the help of LaCantina Doors team up to turn the couple's dysfunctional space into a welcoming home for the newest family member on the way.

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2019-04-19T01:19:00+00:00Most Influential Architecture Trends of 2019http://www.lacantinadoors.com/blog/entry/most-influential-architecture-trends-of-2019-for-your-lacantina-system
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The latest architecture trends of 2019 are providing solutions to global warming and sustainability. Learn more how LaCantina Doors makes an impact in these areas and how indoor-outdoor living is perfect for anyone!

Energy-Efficient Homes

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People are making it a priority that their homes and office buildings are energy-efficient to help address the urgent global warming crisis while saving a little money on utility bills. All LaCantina Systems come standard with dual-paned tempered glass which creates an insulating barrier between the inside and out. Offering low-e glass options helps reduce cooling costs in the summer and heating costs in the winter. The Aluminum Thermally Controlled Folding System is one of LaCantina's most energy efficient.

Automation

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Smart home products make it easy to address everyday household needs. LaCantina is capable of prepping your system for automation before it ships from our manufacturing facility. If you’re interested in automation, please reach out to your LaCantina Sales Representative who will direct you to a reputable partner in your area.

Local Manufacturing

It is no secret that a shift towards local manufacturing is resulting in more sustainable and affordable projects. LaCantina Doors are made locally in Oceanside, California. Being local to Southern California allows us to be in close proximity to areas of high demand for our product. We contribute to green design by minimizing fuel and transportation costs normally associated by importing goods from areas outside of the United States.

Recycled Packaging & Materials

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As the need for sustainability becomes more urgent, LaCantina packs and ships using recycled materials which provide safe transport your new system and smart use of renewable resources.

Small Space Living

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Minimalism and tiny house living are great solutions to those trying to live an eco-friendlier lifestyle, but that doesn’t mean you have sacrifice indoor-outdoor living. LaCantina Doors are perfect for any space. The innovative design connects both indoors and out, maximizing any space and defines a true outdoor living experience.

Watch the Season 3 premiere episode of TLC's Nate & Jeremiah By Design "Luxury Retreat" on Saturday, April 13th at 9PM/8c. Watch how Nate & Jeremiah help Albert and Anna transform their hilltop fixer-upper into their dream home.

Albert had promised Anna he would renovate their outdated house into the home of their dreams but fast foward three years and she's still waiting for that dream to come true. Design experts Nate & Jeremiah step in with the help of LaCantina Doors to make sure Albert keeps his promise.

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2019-04-12T19:14:00+00:00LaCANTINA FEATURED ON HGTV’s HOME TOWNhttp://www.lacantinadoors.com/blog/entry/lacantina-featured-on-hgtvs-home-town
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In this episode of HGTV’s Home Town “Putting Down Roots” Ben and Erin Napier and LaCantina create a sophisticated home for two doctors who are finally ready to put down roots in Laurel, Mississippi.

After falling in love with the small-town energy and hospitality, a couple that was recently recruited by the local hospital looks for a place to live as they start their new jobs as doctors in the South. Watch and learn how LaCantina’s Aluminum Thermally Controlled Folding System transforms their home to create the indoor-outdoor living environment of their dreams.

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2019-04-01T22:20:00+00:00Futuristic Homes That Are Out of This Worldhttp://www.lacantinadoors.com/blog/entry/futuristic-homes-that-are-out-of-this-world
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Space is a fascinating topic and serves as major inspiration for architects and designers from around the world to create some truly out of this world structures. Here are four of LaCantina’s favorite designs that look like they were built in another galaxy:

Wave House was designed by the Finnish architect Seppo Mäntylä and manufactured by the Finnish log home maker Polar Life Haus. Only five of these limited-edition spaceship-like homes will ever be constructed. This aerodynamic home is constructed from solid wood, glass and steel. Seppo Mäntylä designed this home to seamlessly integrate the timber with the glass.

This UFO House is in northeast Italy and originally built in 1973 that was set to be demolished. Architect Stefan Hitthaler remodeled the holiday cabin into a 660 sq. ft. Space Age midcentury that better suits its owners needs. Updates to this UFO-like house include replaced siding and interior finishes, construction of a spacious deck, installation of modern amenities and a spaceship-inspired retractable staircase. The architect focused on solutions that generated greater energy savings and thermal insulation like the ones provided by LaCantina’s Aluminum Thermally Controlled Systems.

Los Terrenos House located on a hillside in Monterrey, Mexico, is comprised of mirrored glass to reflect the terrain around it and blend in with its forest surroundings. “The mirrored glass envelope simultaneously reflects and contains the lush surrounding,” states the Mexico City based architect, Tatiana Bilbao. Folding glass doors similar to LaCantina’s Folding Systems open the bedrooms to look out to the tree tops.

This private residence, located near Moscow, was designed for Russian businessman and philanthropist, Vladislav Doronin. This is the only completed residential project by the late Zaha Hadid. The structure sits on a sloping, forested landscape and the second addition contains the master suite that “floats” 72 feet above the ground to capture the surrounding views.

LaCantina has been recognized as a Best of Houzz 2019 winner for the seventh consecutive year. Houzz is the leading global online platform for residential remodeling and design with over 40 million monthly users.

LaCantina’s work has won in the Design category, as our projects include some of the most popular images on Houzz. Our photos have been downloaded, saved, and shared on Houzz by home building, remodeling and design industry professionals that utilize this platform.

“Best of Houzz is a true badge of honor as it is awarded by our community of homeowners, those who are hiring design, remodeling and other home improvement professionals for their projects,” said Liza Hausman, vice president of Industry Marketing for Houzz. “We are excited to celebrate the 2019 winners chose by our community as their favorites for home design and customer experience, and to highlight those winners on the Houzz website and app.”

A “Best of Houzz 2019” badge will appear on LaCantina’s Houzz profile as a sign of our commitment to excellence and to help homeowners identify a most popular and top-rated manufacturer.

Tomorrow, February 14th, 2019, kicks off the start of the 14th annual Modernism Week, a celebration of midcentury architecture and design as well as contemporary thinking by encouraging education, preservation and sustainable modern living. The festivities take place for 10 days throughout the greater Palm Springs area. Modernism Week features more than 350 events including home tours, films, lectures, bus tours, parties, walking and bike tours, fashion, classic cars, modern garden tours and exhibitions.

One of the most anticipated home tours of the festival includes The Christopher Kennedy Compound Modernism Week Show House 2019 which is debuting unique rooms created by an All-Star roster of interior designers and features 11 LaCantina Aluminum Thermally Controlled Systems from Folding, Sliding, and Swing product lines for a perfect match across all door systems throughout the house. The Hollywood Reporter has named it the “#1 Must-See Event of Modernism Week” and has become one of the most successful signature events and has fundraised over $250,000 since its inception in 2014.

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2019-02-13T20:01:00+00:00Top Concept Homes for Design Enthusiasts Who Love Indoor-Outdoor Livinghttp://www.lacantinadoors.com/blog/entry/top-concept-homes-for-design-enthusiasts-who-love-indoor-outdoor-living
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A concept home is an envisioned proposal that has yet to be constructed in the real world. They are innovative, lavish and specifically designed to go viral. LaCantina has chosen four of its favorite concept houses that embrace indoor-outdoor living that design enthusiasts have been debating on the internet:

Cliff House is a five-story conceptual home set in coastal Australia with a deep connection to the ocean. The inspiration for this cliff dwelling was barnacles clinging to the hull of a ship. This ultra-modern home was intended to be a natural extension of the cliff rather than be visualized as an addition to the landscape. Many across the web have doubted the structural integrity of the house to which Modscape has responded with: “As the design itself would make conventional construction prohibitive, the concept utilizes Modscape’s modular design and prefabrication technologies to deliver a series of stacked modules that are anchored into the cliff face using engineered steel pins.”

Da-house was created by a Ukrainian architect known for his hyper-realistic renderings. His modernist residences are often defined by concrete and create a dark atmosphere. Da-house embodies Japanese minimalism which is supported by micro-gardens throughout the courtyards and structural glass walls like the ones LaCantina’s Multi Slide Systems create. This devastatingly beautiful concept will leave you feeling a certain way.

Concept/77 is a stark white residence situated on a rock overlooking the ocean. The structure consists of two living compartments and a boat storage. The design concept is daring, bold and minimal. While no windows exist from the sides of the building, the entire roof is a skylight so lots of daylighting reaches the space.

Chair House would be the perfect home for anyone looking to reconnect with nature as it is in a remote forest, embedded in a rocky mountainside and overlooks the ocean. The contemporary glass walls allow for a light-filled interior much like LaCantina’s Multi Slide Systems allow with its narrow stiles and low profile rails to maximize glass. Igor Sirotov has designed this concept home entirely out of a block of concrete and has a Brutalism meets Open Spaces™ vibe.

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2019-01-30T17:38:00+00:00UCCA Dune Art Museumhttp://www.lacantinadoors.com/blog/entry/ucca-dune-art-museum
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The UCCA Dune Art Museum was designed and brought to life by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing of OPEN Architecture. This stunning structure is located on a strip of sand on the Bohai Sea in North China. The 10,000 sq. ft. museum is mostly hidden and is literally buried within one of the last remaining natural dune formations.

Outside views of the museum only show a few tubular skylights, a stair tower and a few sightings of parabolic concrete shells. From the inside, visitors will see how daylight filters into the seven galleries which are dome-like spaces that shape-shift with the formation and can capture captivating views from the three terraces that open to the sea. One of the coolest features of the museum is its ability to track the sky. Two of the skylights orient to the sun at the summer and winter solstices. Huang states, “We wanted to encourage people to think about their relationship with art, and with nature.”

The dune was originally designed to cohabitate art and dining, but halfway through the project art stole the spotlight. One of the planned kitchens was redesigned into the museums only rectangular gallery.

The original plans had called for the entire structure to be casted in concrete, but the curvature created by the dune formation made it unclear how that would be done successfully. The architects used local contractors who had experience in boat construction and could create complex curves in wood. Due to the curves being such an issue to work with, the architects and contractors needed to be flexible and many impromptu decisions were made. If wood proved to be too complicated, the workers would adapt and use sheet metal and rubber tubing instead. The flaws of the new materials were to be smoothed over with plaster, but upon seeing how beautiful the imperfections were, they decided to embrace them.

The UCCA Dune Art Museum is one of two with the “Sea Museum” to be constructed soon. The new museum will only be reached by a 500-foot-long causeway designed to disappear at high tide beneath the rising waters.

LaCantina’s Contemporary Clad System has been named as one of the Top 50 Products for 2018 by Architectural Products, the leading business publication focused on products, materials and applications for the architectural market involved in commercial and institutional building design. This is the 16th year that Architectural Products has produced this coveted list.

The Reader’s Choice Top 50 winners list represents those products that have attracted the most interest among the Architectural Products audience as measured by a combination of reader response and editorial staff input over the past year.

The Top 50 Products of 2018 are profiled in the December issue of the magazine.